Politicians Fear Unpredictable Trump-Putin Summit

Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin could meet again as early as September. Photo courtesy of kremin.ru

Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin will meet for their first official summit together in less than two weeks. The meeting is a momentous occasion for both nations following years of escalated political tensions. However, the realization of what this summit means for other countries and international relations as a whole is only starting to come into full focus.

British diplomats have told reporters they fear the unpredictability and impulsiveness of Trump and what he might agree to in a one-on-one meeting with Putin.

One senior British politician told The Guardian: “People say Donald Trump’s strength is that he thinks outside the box. But that is not right. He does not even know what the box is.”

The Trump-Putin meet comes straight after a string of important international summits for the US President. Trump will already be in Europe for a Nato summit on July 11 and 12, before a biliteral meeting with British Prime Minister Theresa May. He will then meet Vladimir Putin in Helsinki, Finland on July 16.

The summit is expected to last several hours as both leaders discuss US-Russia relations, the war in Syria, and possibly nuclear weapons issues.

Russia continues to say they had nothing to do with Meddling in our Election! Where is the DNC Server, and why didn’t Shady James Comey and the now disgraced FBI agents take and closely examine it? Why isn’t Hillary/Russia being looked at? So many questions, so much corruption!

Several commentators have drawn parallels between this summit and the recent, other historic meeting between Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un last month.

The President surprised Seoul by cancelling US military exercises with South Korea in an unexpected concession following the North Korea-US summit in Singapore. Political pundits are speculating whether such backflip decisions could also occur after the Putin meet.

Trump has demonstrated fresh skepticism about Russia’s attempts to meddle in the 2016 US Presidential election with a tweet last month.

“Russia continues to say they had nothing to do with Meddling in our Election! Where is the DNC Server, and why didn’t Shady James Comey and the now disgraced FBI agents take and closely examine it?”

“I have to say with regret that Russian-American relations are not in the best shape,” Putin told Bolton, “and I’ve already said this repeatedly in public and am saying this to you now: I think that this is largely a result of the acute internal political struggle within the US itself.”

“Your arrival in Moscow has given us hope that we can make the first steps to reviving full relations between our governments,” he added.

According to political aides, Trump and Putin will meet one-on-one at the start of their July 16 summit before allowing other aides to join the highly-anticipated encounter.